Messing
About in Boats, Boots, and Byways:
Archive of Erie Canal Journal entries: 18 July 06 |
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One
of our favorite destinations is the Erie Canal, which originally
began in downtown Buffalo, and later when the canal was widened
and renamed the Erie Canal Barge Canal, the canal began, and
still begins, at North Tonawanda on the Niagara River where
Tonawanda Creek empties into the river.
We have biked in five-mile bites from Lockport to Brockport,
and we've rowed a time or two, too.
Heron
there
18
July 06: The
Reverend and I finally got the
Harmonica out on the Erie Canal for the first time
this summer.
High
point of the day was my realizing a year's-long
goal of capturing a heron on film. Here and there,
and now and then, I've had a chance for a single
snap but have never been successful.
This
time, the heron stood for minutes on end, then lifted
a wing, then took flight. I got about 10 pix before
it finally disappeared.
From
heron out, I'll be looking for that bird in that
place, when we launch at Middleport.
Heron
surveys its domain on the south bank of the Erie Canal
near Middleport. |
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Rock
jumble on the canal bank. |
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Heron
prepares to fly off. |
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How
many birds to you see in this picture, boys and girls? |
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Last
shot is a lucky one, heron in flight. |
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Late
afternoon sun on brown dirt and rocks. Reminds me of a
Southwest motif. |
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Abandoned
house hard by the towpath in the village of Middleport. |
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Simple
cleat on the dockwall at Middleport makes a big statement. |
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Late afternoon sun makes a stunning statement. |
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The
stark, bare twigs amid the green caught my eye. |
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Erosion
of the north bank, the towpath side, makes another interesting,
Southwest-like motif. |
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Here
is a tighter crop to show what I'm talking about. |
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Middleport
Guard Gate at the end of the day. |
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